1. Searching for a lad successful precocious school may beryllium arsenic useless arsenic searching for meaning successful a Pauly Shore movie, but conducting probe astatine Beverly Hills High was peculiarly fruitful for writer-director Amy Heckerling. "The 1 happening I observed," she told Entertainment Weekly, "was these girls successful a changeless authorities of grooming." 

2. Through assorted stages of editing, producers were frankly a spot clueless arsenic to what to telephone their high schoolhouse flick. Early titles included No Worries and I Was a Teenage Teenager.

3. Alicia Silverstone pretty overmuch had the relation of Cher successful the bag. While penning her script, Heckerling took announcement of the young histrion formed successful a drawstring of Aerosmith videos. "I saw her successful the archetypal one, and videotaped it truthful erstwhile I handed successful the publication I could amusement them the miss that I liked," she recalled to The Telegraph. Meanwhile her casting manager friend Carrie Frazier "kept telling maine I had to spot this girl, she was in The Crush. Her sanction was Alicia Silverstone. And I was like, 'but I privation the Aerosmith Girl!' Ultimately we were talking astir the aforesaid person."

4. Silverstone sealed the woody during a meal retired with Heckerling. "When she was sipping her portion done a straw, alternatively of taking the solid and straw to her face, Alicia leaned implicit the array to sip the straw from the glass," recalled subordinate producer Twink Caplan, who besides gave beingness to Cher's saccharine teacher Miss Geist. "And Amy thought: 'Oh my god, this is my girl.' Alicia was Cher, she is conscionable the sweetest girl, she inactive is."

7. Though it's adjacent to intolerable to ideate anyone but Rudd arsenic Cher's adversary turned boyfriend, it astir happened, the workplace astir going with different star. But erstwhile that program fizzled "we went backmost to Paul and helium was surface tested, and helium was amazing," casting manager Marcia Ross recalled to The Telegraph. "He went done a batch to get that part, galore many auditions."

8. Initially, though, he'd hoped to beryllium considered for different role. "I thought Murray was benignant of a achromatic feline wanting to beryllium Black. I didn't recognize helium was really Black," helium told Chaney successful her 2015 book. "Also I thought: I haven't seen that quality before, the achromatic feline who's trying to co-opt Black culture. But, well: that quality is really going to beryllium African-American. Oh, O.K."

13. While not afloat "ensemble-y challenged" then-17-year-old Silverstone wasn't rather arsenic into manner arsenic her change ego, admitting during a panel at the 2019 Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, that she sometimes struggled to subordinate to that facet of Cher (who sported some 64 outfits during the 100-minute film) because she tended to deterioration "the aforesaid greenish T-shirt and jeans" each the time. Even during that archetypal 1995 property run, she admitted to the Allentown Morning Call, "I had to bash a batch of probe for this relation due to the fact that I hatred putting bully apparel on. I similar to deterioration achromatic sweats and a T-shirt. I'm down-to-earth, a full tomboy."

14. Figuring retired each girl's benignant was a afloat week's work. "Usually you bash 2 days, and we did seven, 10 hours a time of fitting," Stacey Dash told The Telegraph. "That's however galore apparel we went through, racks and racks and racks." Her favorite: Dionne's plaid ensemble "with the chapeau that looks similar a beauteous small cake."

15. The chemistry betwixt Dash and onscreen fellow Murray (a pre-Scrubs Donald Faison) "was there," she recalled to The Telegraph, "it wasn't acting." Certainly not connected Faison's part. "I was enamored by her," helium shared. "I retrieve telling my friends that I was going to beryllium dating the miss from Mo' Money and they were going crazy, asking if I was going to buss her. I was like, 'Yeah! You stake I'm gonna buss her. I'm gonna springiness her a bully buss too!'"

16. It was, successful fact, his archetypal on-screen smooch. "When I said 'cut,' helium conscionable jumped astir the acceptable similar crazy," Heckerling recently shared with the New York Post of the duo's post-traumatic freeway accent make-out. "He was bouncing astir similar a puppy. God, helium was blessed and proud."

17. The 40-day sprout successful the wintertime of 1994 was not dissimilar the carefree precocious schoolhouse acquisition they were trying to capture. "Making the movie felt similar going to a alternatively guiltless enactment wherever 1 of the games was, 'Let's Make a Movie'. The formed were not needfully radical who adjacent were readying to person careers, they were conscionable doing thing successful itself that was entertaining and amusing and fun," said Shawn. "It was wholly delightful."

22. When it came to filming 1 of the classic moments from that Valley bash, the cast kinda sucked. After struggling to make "Suck and Blow" enactment with an existent recognition card, the prop squad was tasked to trade 1 retired of cardboard. Several layers of ChapStick provided other suction. 

23. Equally arsenic tragic: Murray's shaved head—a look that had Dionne threatening to telephone his mother. Meyer revealed astatine the 2019 Chicago sheet that they left a spot of hairsbreadth connected the sides of Faison's head—just capable to peek retired erstwhile helium was filmed successful a hat.

25. Think Heckerling came up with Cher's signature slam connected her own? As if! Something of an amateur linguist, the screenwriter is "always compiling slang words due to the fact that I americium conscionable funny successful however radical usage language," she explained to The Hollywood Reporter in 2016 of the line's origins. "At that time, which was similar aboriginal '90s, 'As if!' was floating astir successful the cheery community. and I thought it was truly a multiuseful, multipurpose word. I thought it would beryllium a bully happening for teenagers to beryllium saying."

28. But 1 of the film's classical moments came from Silverstone herself. Giving her (still incredibly relevant) statement statement connected immigration, she mispronounced Haitians, Heckerling shared with EW, "and everybody started to tally up to her to archer her it was wrong. I had to halt them. It was overmuch funnier the mode she said it. That was Cher."

29. It genuinely is hard to nail down conscionable 1 "best" infinitesimal from the flick. For Dash, it "was erstwhile we changeable the tennis-court scene, erstwhile Elisa Donovan says, 'My integrative surgeon doesn't privation maine doing enactment wherever balls alert astatine my nose.' And I say, 'There goes your societal life.'" But Silverstone is partial to Tai's classical "You're a virgin who can't drive" slam: "The mode her small rima gets puckered up and the mode she says it, it kills me. That was mode harsh, Tai."